Below are a short video helping to understand the basic operating elements of a Maglev Wind Turbine, then a website for building one.
Some features could perhaps be useful for some AWES architectures where classic ball bearings are not easily implementable.
Hi @dougselsam, what you call “the real world of wind energy” does not intend to do AWES. Current wind turbines do not fly. Currently the reeling yo-yo mode seems to have some advance (average 92 kW (figure 15) with 12 m/s wind speed). And as you often mention this mode of production would not be used for ground-based wind turbines. But AWES aim to be flying wind energy systems.